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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22

Tariff Reduction More Promising.

1t is announced that leading tariff reform
ers of the House are busily engaged in per-
fecting a tariff reduction bill and that the
Ways and Means Committee will be able to
report it to the House soon after the holiday
recess. There ought to be as little delay as
possible in reporting it, since the business
interests of the country are suffering from
the accumulation of the surplus in the
Treasury. There appears to be avery hope
full feeling among the tariff reformers.
Doubtless they have good reasons for think
ing that there will be less trouble in getting
the House to agree upon tax reduction
measure than was anticipated.
There is considerable doubt whether Mr..
Randall will actively oppose a bill that is
satisfactory to the tariff reformers. The
impression prevails that there is sort of
tacit understanding between him and
Speaker Carlisle that while he will not
assist in passing a tariff reduction bill, he
will not seek to defeat it by the obstructive
tactics which he employed to kill the Morri-
son and other similar bills The Speaker, it
is understood, had several conferences with
him Immediately prior to the convening of
COhSi Soo1 hilu tllO IdCb thaC hC huS GA
pressed his intention Of making him
chairman of the second committee
in importance, and has made him member
of the Committee on Rules, would seem to
indicate that he has reason to expect that
he will show more consideration for the
wishes of his party in tariff matters than he
has heretofore.
Mr.. Randall doubtless sees how important
it is to the country and the Democratic
party that the revenues shall be reduced,
and he must be convinced by this time that
there is no probability that his party will
adopt his plan for reducing them. If they
are reduced, therefore, he and his few fol-
lowers must permit the wishes of their party
to prevail. A few weeks probably will
show what may be expected from Nh. Ran
dali in this revenue reduction matter
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22
Cost of q. Coming Out" Dress.
From Clara Belle's Ne,r Yors Letter.

From Clara Bellies Ne1c YORK Letter.
Next to the bridal dress of a young girl her
coming out" costume is the crucial test of
task and income. Mis- Norris sweet sim
plicity" of costume was an example The foun-
dation was a low-necked. no-sleeved slip of
what one would call rose white. If yellow white
be ivory, or cream, then pink white is rose
Whit. The material was corded silk, heavy
and lustrous. About the wslklng-length skirt
was a boX-plaited row of vaienciennes four
inches deep at So yard. In each plat of the
lace hung pendent an artificial half blown blush
rose. Up one side like panel went row after
row of lace and buds. Draped over the silk was
mass of ethereal silk gallze, with satin stripes
in pure white. Opposite the panel, on the right
side was big pocket arrangement, made of
satin folds nterlaced like basketwork, and
sprnging out of the TOP was splendid cluster
OF blush roses, half blown and buds. The girsh
chest of the debutante admitted of the upper
half the corsage being made of overlapping rows
of valenciennes and intermngling buds. and
hip corset of satin, laced behind, showing the
slender waist. There were certainly fifty yards
of lace on the dress and 800 roses. The material
that formed the overdress was 800 for five
yards, the slip cost $50 the roses and the max.
ing were sos, and the simple rosebud dress
OF miss in her teens, without any iewe,ry or
display, cost $500
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22

Maj Merritt, representing the Grand
Army of the Republic, is in Washington
taking preliminary view of the field be-
fore having introduced another pension bill
The bill said to have been agreed on by the
Grand Army is to be called the disability
pension bin, and will differ in some respects
from the dependent pension bill. 1t will
provide pension of Sl2 month for parents
of dead or disabled soldiers who have no
sufficient means of support. These Grand
Army patriots profess to be greatly con-
cerned for the disabled soldiers and their
families. Probably they are; but they will
not object to making little political CAPT
tai for the Republicans. If the wrong kind
of pension bill comes before Mr. Cleveland
he will be very apt to veto it, and the coun-
try viii sustain him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22
BRIGHT BITS.

TIE Canadian papers are calling Mr. Cham
berlain Jonah He ought, then, to be able to
get on the inside of the fish question. boston
Post
PRESENCE OF MIND is all well enough In some
cases, but when man finds himself in danger
of freezing to death he shouldn't try to keep
too cool.-1he Epoch
LAWYER lin court)-Little boy, do you know
the nature of an oath:
Little Boy-Yes, sir; it's something my pa
uses to put up stovepipes with.-Boston Trans
crjDt.
In THE HIGH SCHOOL of 1900: Princpal-Who
was first in war, first IN peace, and first 10 the
hearts OF his countrymen? Chorus by the
tire school, standing and with uncovered heads
John Lawrence Standardization Post.
SHE--Why. where have you been?
Heat the (hic) club.
Sne-But surely you didn't get your hat
smashed in at the club. What club was il?
He-The (hic) poceman's club.-Detron Free
Press.
K STREET LADY to Mrs. Rongwerd- There's
cold wave coming.
Mrs Rongwerd-IS that so?
X Street Lady-Yes; l saw the signal flag
flying.
Mrs Rongwerd--wel these weather predica-
mentS of Gen. Greedy are really wonderful
Critic.
MY SISTER CLARA" said Bobby to young Mr..
Sissy, was talking to ma about your leaving so
early last night"
Did she say she was sorry, Bobby?" whis-
pered young Sissy.
mo; she said she s'posed you went home so
early because very likely your mamma wouldn't
let you carry night key" The Epoch.
For HEAVENS SAKE, look at the nose of that
man over there"
Yes. that's Jim Bingleyr
He must be 4 terrible soak"
He used to be, but he reformed two weeks
ago
Reformed? He's full now
Yes | know. He signed the pledge two
weeks ago, and he feels so proud and happy
about it that he's been drunk ever since. Ne
6rdSkd State journal.
HERE you fellows what you dom hereY"
shrieked a country woman to party of railroad
surveyors who were driving stakes on corner
of her farm.
We're surveying for a railroad, - replied the
chief engineer of the party.
What; one o them steam ingine things I've
heern tell on2'
Yes that's it,
We'll, you git right off n this ground"
You will be well paid for all damage done to
your land"
''PayY There amt money enough on top o.
this created earth to pay me for bein' skeered
to death dozen times day by thing like
that. I've heern how them ingine bilers bust
an blow up whole farms. Now jest as sure as
You lay that track hYar, TIL take the cord
from my bedstead an tie it over the track an
trip your blamed old ingine up every time. You
see if | don't ,"-TId Bits.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22
Extending Books"
From the Nashville American.


ST. Louis paper tells about the practice of
extending books" which means illustrating
or embellshing without the aid of some artist,
by placing between the pages of book pictures
of objects therein described, portraits of the
author and perSonages mentioned in the text
and illustrations of subjects referred TO. This
may sound simple enough at first reading, but
in reality the task gives collector a life-work
and may cost fortune. There are works
originally of 100 pages which have been thus
extendedSp 1000 pages. The collector begins
simply bygathering few pictures illustrating
the salient points of the book in hand
at trifiing expense. That does not sat
isfy him any more than a few stamps
do in the case of a phlaletst The further
illustration of his book becomes a mania As
soon as his volume becomes bulky he tears
away the binding and divides it into two or more
volumes. Afterthat he haunts the book stands,
looks through every Illustrated book or paper
at auction sales, and will buy set of books il
necessary, to illustrate some subject in his book
An idea of this labor can well be given when il
is stated that one lady has been engaged for six
years illustrating volume Of Byron's works,
and has nearly thirty different portraits of the
poet, and various noted places mentioned in the
"Childe Harold" No picture, however badly
soiled, escapes her, and she has etchings. en-.
cravings and photog apis without number
Autograph letters of persons mentioned In the
book have been obtained. and from a small vol
ume of poems it has become an album of art
and literature
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22
The Scheme of the Mormons.

In his tilt with Senator Edmunds day or
two ago on the question Of printing in the
Congressional Record the memorial of the
Constitutional Convention of Utah, Senator
Call, of Florida, is reported to have said
that he understood, from statements which
he regarded as reliable, that not more than
) per cent of the people of Utah favored
polygamy If it be true that so small a
portion Of the people of that Territory up
hold polygamy, it seems strange that it has
been impossible to suppress it. If one
twentieth of the people are able to continue
an institution to which nineteen-twentieths
object, the bull. of the population of the
Territory must be woefully lacking in in
telligence and force Of character. Those
who compose the one-twentieth must have
all the brains and wealth and their in
fluence must be all-powerful. The truth
probably is that about all the Mormons be-
lieve in polygamy. They think that it is a
divine institution, and though they are not
for various reasons polygamists in fact,
they are ready to uphold it. The Mormon
who has only one wife is about as wiling
probably to make sacrifices for polygamy
as the one who has dozen.
Mormonism sanctions polygamy and
every believer in Mormonism, therefore, be-
lieves in it. If the number of the believers
in it were as small as Senator Call seems to
think, it would have disappeared from
Utah long ago. Notwiths anding the fight
that has been waged against it for many
years, it is as firmly rooted in Utah as it
was q Quarter of century ago
The Mormons are now making extraor-
binary efforts to have Utah admitted into
the Union. They want to get beyond the
jurisdiction of the Edmunds law. That
law is a thorn in their sides, as it were, and
il it is vigo. ously enforced, will eventually
put an end to polygamy. The only hope
the Mormons have of saving polygamy is
in getting into the Union, where they will
be free from Congressional interference and
will have charge of their own affairs.
They have adopted a constitution which
is apparently hostile to polygamy, but there
is nothing to prevent them from changing
it as soon as Utah becomes a State. Their
plan, doubtless, is to get into the Union with
an anti-polygamy constitution and then
change their organic law to suit them
selves
1t will be a serious mistake to admit Utah
until polygamy is dead beyond resurrection.
1t has already given the country a vast
amount of trouble, and it would be the
height of folly to give the Mormons the
power to remove all restraints from it and
to encourage its growth.
1t is reported that there is now strong
Mormo2 lobby at Washington, and that it
has almost unlimited means at its COM
mand. This report may or may not be well
founded 1t is certain, however, that the
Mormons are making extraordinary efforts
to have Utah admitted, and that they are
giving great many pledges to accomplish
that object There is no party advantage
that could be gained by yielding to their
wish that would be a sufficient compensa-
ton for the admission of Utah with power
to perpetuate polygamy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22
A Very Quiet Ball.
From a Mew York Letter

FTOM u lNeW IOfh Letter.
There was a curious ball given In New York
on Wednesday night. Two hundred people
were on the dancing floor, but not a sound was
heard except the music of the band In almost
every ballroom there is hum of conversation
that tells of the enjoyment of the dancers as
they move about the floor. II is not very loud.
and you rather feel IL more than hear IT, but at
this ball all was still as DEATH 1t was a fancy.
had grand time, ii one may Judge from the
way their fiOgers reeled Off what their lips could
not say. 1t is one OF the queer things about
deafness that those so affected can feel sounds
and these dancers could feel the music of the
band, and they could feel II so distinctly that
they were able to dance in perfect time TO t. |
should think that the sign language would be
rather hard on firtations. As all talking
except that expressed by the eyes IS
done with the fingers, it can lie
read as easily by person sitting across the
room as by the one for whom it Is intended; but
suppose that the 1rtatiously inclined have in
vented some means by which they can express
their thoughts out of sight of all but themselves.
Here the fan could play an important part in
irritation, for telieve they make the most of
Their signs with one hand, 50 they could easily
hold fan and talk from behind it, | can i'm
agne nothing but blindness that would be a
greater affiiction than to be deaf and dumb, and
yet THESE deat mutes must be a happy lot
Ihanks To Dr. Gallaudet, they are not deprived
or the usual social enjoyments that fall TO the
lot OF their more favored brothers and sisters
The wife of the present Dr. Gallaudet K q deaf
mute, very handsome and intelligent woman
by the way. but noae OF her children were born
far, ~ ~
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

MEETINGs--Zerubbabe Lodge No. Is, F. and
A. NJ; Stockhols = Central Railroad and Bank
ing Company of .orgia
SPECIAL NOTICES --.ais olution, j. Rawls & Co.;
To All Good Livers, H. Logan, City Market;
Reward Lindsay & Morgan; Dressed Turkeys,
John Lyons & Co.
AUCTION SALE-Brig for Sale, by J. McLaugh-
lin & Son.
LEcTuRE-On Pope Leo Kill at the Theatre.
Cone IN THE MoRNING-L. & B. S. M. II.
MERRY CHRIsTMAs-M Prayer, Proprietor
Savannah Steam Laundry
SILVER PLATED KNIVES, SPOONS, ETc.-Lovell
& baltimore.
CHEAP COLUMN ADvERTIsEMENTs-HelpW Want
ed: Employment Wanted; For Rent; For Sale;
Lost; Photography; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22
en- Instructive Tale.
From, It'd Bits.


There were once two Boys named William and
Henry. William was real Story-hook Boy,
and never bought Prize Packages or tied tin
cans to the tales of helpless Quad-ru-peds, or
in-dul- ged in any other eccen-tric-i-tes of this
Nature Henry, on the con -tra-ry, was Bold
and Bad What he was after was Fun, and he
Got it, True, he spelled necessity without
when the Circus came to town.
The two Boys had the Hard Luck to grow to
ad-oles cent manhood. They entered College
together. Henry soon became PROMINENT
member of the Base Ball Club, and gained great
Popularity. But William did not care a Con-
ti-nen-tal for Base Ball, and, therefore, re-
NAMED in com-par tive ob-scu-Ii-ty, busy-ing
himself with his studies and planning to be
Great and Good man. How absurd, was it Not?
Time passed and William was graduated with
high honors Henry was Not but he Got there
Just the same.
When they left the College, each found him
self called upon to Choose ro-fes-sion Will
liam de cid-ed to become Lawyer. Did Henry
do the same: Not precisely. He was too fly,
to quote from the Classics He became a run
ner-in'' for the largest and most elegant gam
bling establishment in the West, and is now in
Receipt of salary of $3.50 per annum. Is
William making $3.50 per annum? guess
Not. He is making about 81 so per week, and
he wears cel-lu-loid collar and Dis-cour-a -ged
expression of coun-ten-ance.
What is the Moral of this Little Tale, anyway,
Children? Il. IA STEARN,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22
A Man OF Exnerience.

Fred Carr1Ith in the Chicago Tribune
Did / understand you to say that you had
bad considerable experience with the Indians in
the Westf'' inquired man on an Eastern train
OF a tall stranger.
Yes, suppose have"
what do you consider the outlook for their
civization?"
Poor, very poor. They don't seem TO learn
anything. Why, sir only last week / traded
one OF the most intelligent Of them an old horse
blind in both eyes and all cripped up generally
for two good ponies, and he never knew he was
cheated can't understand why it is the Indian
doesn't improve more"
We'll, that looks bad for them, sure enough
suppose you have ranch near one of their
reservations?"
'Oh, no. I'm no rancher," replied the stranger
as he threw his leg over the arm of the seat
mo I'm a missionary. | was sent out by the
William Penn Missionary Society, of Philadel
phia, and have been laborng among the red
brethren for the last twenty years"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22

The advertising methods adopted in
Cleveland, o. +, by the evangelists, Munhall
and Towner, have not commended them
selves to the approval of the people, who
declare them to be too much like those
miliar. These enterprising evangelists prob
ably think Cleveland is old-fasnioned in her
religious notions, and the people of Cleve-
land very likely think Drs. Munhall and
Towner are altogether too new-fashioned.
The cause of religion is not benefited to any
great extent by circus methods of advertis-
ing or sensational performances that border
on the blasphemous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22
A Nuisance.

From the Someruilse Journal.
OF all the pestilential bores
That make this life a state
OF constant torment most dread
The man who's always late.
He never keeps his word but lets
His friends anticipate
His coming for a weary while,
The man who's always late
He says he'll come at half past six,
You wait till long past eight,
And haven't seen a sign of him,
The man who's always late.
With stale excuses glibly made,
He tries to palliate
His hardness, but you don't love
The man who's always late.
He never cares for others pans.
"Oh, hang them, let them wait"
He says aloud or to himself.
The man who's always late.
But some day punishment will fall
On him as sure as Fate,
And he'll be sorry that he is
The man who's always late.
When he comes up all out of breath,
To old st. Peters gate.
st. Peter 'llsay: You can't come in,
This time you're much too late. "
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22
There is good deal of talk in washin.

There is good deal of talk in Washing
ton about vacant houses there. A leading
real estate agent says not less than 5000 are
now vacant, with slim prospects of renting
them. This is regarded as an exaggeration,
bit the number is unusually large owing to
two causes: First, when the Democrats
came into power building boom swept
over the city, and large number of avail
able lots were bought for building purposes
and, second, many of the smaller houses in
Washington are said to be owned by gov
eminent employees, who have lost their
positions since 1884.
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Prof. Swing, of Chicago, is coming into
notice as the probable successor of Mr.
Beecher in Plymouth church. Prof. Swing
is said to be independent in his views, and
is now preaching on mis- own platform from
creed formulated by himself. Plymouth
seems to have forgotten that Mr.. Beecher
had brother, Thomas K. Beecher, who has
gained considerable reputation as a preach
err Why doesn't Plymouth invite him to
fill the vacant pulpit
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22

Nevada has in Mr.. Stewart a United
States Senator who will attend to the duties
of his office. Senator Jones is rarely in the
Senate, and it is fortunate for Nevada that
her other Senator has some conception of
his official obligations. Senator Stewart is
described as a man of talent and a good
debater. He was in the Senate from Ne
vada dozen years ago, but dropped out,
and was reelected only last year. While
he is a Republican, it is an open secret that
his personal relations with the President are
intimate, and he will probably side with
Mr.. Cleveland in the event of an issue be-
tween the Senate and the administration.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22

One of the things Mr.. Joseph Chamber
iain has not been able to comprehend is that
the two great political parties in this coun-
try are quarreling over what shall be done
with the surplus, while in England the
strife is always to explain away the deficit
Mr.. Chamberlain no doubt agrees with Col.
Frederick Grant in the opinion that sur
plus is easier to handle than deficit. In
England the handling of surplus would
be considered small matter.